The first from Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of State and Stanford academic, it's called "Extraordinary Ordinary People" and it chronicles her life before the Bush administration growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama.

Set in segregated Mississippi circa 1962, The Help tells the story of a young white woman named Skeeter who befriends a group of black maids and records their lives — the white children they care for and love, the bosses who often, but not always, treat them like dirt.

Kind of funny that Drizzle thinks an exhibition team formed when every major professional sports league in the country was officially or defacto segregated is racist because most of its players have been black.

Along with six others thought equally hampered, I was segregated from the smart gifteds and put in a special classroom with a warden-like geometry teacher whose stiff canvas skirts seemed prison-issue.